Genesis 16

¹ Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had not borne to him, and she had an Egyptian handmaid named Hagar.

² And Sarai said to Abram, ‘Behold now, the Lord has restrained me from bearing; please come to my handmaid; perhaps I will be built up from her.’ And Abram hearkened to Sarai's voice.

³ So Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, at the end of ten years of Abram's dwelling in the land of Canaan, and she gave her to Abram her husband for a wife.

⁴ And he came to Hagar, and she conceived, and she saw that she was pregnant, and her mistress became unimportant in her eyes.

⁵ And Sarai said to Abram, ‘May my injustice be upon you! I gave my handmaid into your bosom, and she saw that she had become pregnant, and I became unimportant in her eyes. May the Lord judge between me and you!’

⁶ And Abram said to Sarai, ‘Here is your handmaid in your hand; do to her that which is proper in your eyes.’ And Sarai afflicted her, and she fled from before her.

⁷ And an angel of the Lord found her by a water fountain in the desert, by the fountain on the road to Shur.

⁸ And he said, ‘Hagar, Sarai's servant, where are you coming from, and where are you going to?’ And she said, ‘From before Sarai my mistress, I am fleeing.’

⁹ And the angel of the Lord said to her, ‘Return to your mistress, and allow yourself to be afflicted under her hands.’

¹⁰ And the angel of the Lord said to her, ‘I will greatly multiply your seed, and it will not be counted for abundance.’

¹¹ And the angel of the Lord said to her, ‘Behold, you will conceive and bear a son, and you shall name him Ishmael, for the Lord has heard your affliction.

¹² And he will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be upon all, and everyone's hand upon him, and before all his brothers he will dwell.’

¹³ And she called the name of the Lord, Who had spoken to her, ‘You are the God of seeing,’ because she said, ‘Have I seen [him] here also after I have seen?’

¹⁴ Therefore the well was called Be'er Lachai Ro'i; behold it is between Kadesh and between Bered.

¹⁵ And Hagar bore a son to Abram, and Abram named his son, whom Hagar had borne, Ishmael.

¹⁶And Abram was eighty-six years old, when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.